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Near Fine. First edition. Folio. Quarto. [160]pp. Illustrated in color and black-and-white photographs by Larry Burrows. Lettering on spine is a bit tarnished, a near fine copy in near fine publisher's paper-covered slipcase with pictorial onlay on the front cover of the slipcase. In February of 1971, photographer Larry Burrows was killed when his helicopter was shot down over Laos. This book was published in memory of his work, reproducing many of his Southeast Asian photographs, as well as surveying his earlier work.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. Folio. Soiled spot near the crown with sunning to the spine, else fine in a very lightly rubbed, about fine slipcase. A better than usual copy of this book with images by a British photographer killed in the Vietnam War.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Time-Life Books, New York, 1972. Unpaginated (170 pgs). Illustrated throughout. Slipcased with color pastedown present to the slipcase. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Larry Burrows began working for Life Magazine in 1942 in London. In 1945 he started to photograph people like Ernest Hemingway and Winston Churchill. He didn't like being called a war photographer, but he spent much of his career on battlefields for the magazine covering conflicts in the Congo, the Middle East and Vietnam. He was a three time winner of the Robert Capa Gold Medal for still photography requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. He was named 1967 Magazine Photographer of the Year by the Pictures of the Year competition of the National Press Photographers Association This book has examples of his work in England, the Congo, Inida-China conflict in 1962 but for the most part it consists of the Vietnam war. On Feb. 6 1971, Larry Burrows photographed his last story--the accidental U. S. Bombing of a South Vietnamese positiion near Laos. Four days later, the helicopter carrying Burrows into Laos was lost and at age 44 he was dead. This book contains some of the best photography to come out of the Vietnam war. EB; 4to 11"-13" tall.
Not just an A-list war photographer, but also a first rate news photographer with a great eye and consummate technical ability.
Many of these photos are in the more recent;y published 'Larry Burrows: Vietnam' but this collection has non-war work and fuller examples of his photographic essays.